Gentoo install minion only

[luckylinux]

Description of Issue/Question

I would like to install only salt-minion (and possibly salt-call) on my Gentoo minions.
The documentation at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/gentoo.html only tells to run "emerge app-admin/salt".

Setup

This however install also salt-master on the client (minion) which I don't want (overhead, possible security risk, ...).

Is there a USE flag that needs to be set/unset?
I currently have salt installed with the following USE="zeromq -cherrypy -gnupg -keyring -ldap -libcloud -libvirt -mako -mongodb -mysql -neutron -nova -openssl -portage -profile -raet -redis -selinux -test -timelib -vim-syntax"

Steps to Reproduce Issue

Install salt on Gentoo
emerge app-admin/salt

Versions Report

Salt Version:
Salt: 2019.2.0

Dependency Versions:
cffi: 1.11.4
cherrypy: Not Installed
dateutil: Not Installed
docker-py: Not Installed
gitdb: Not Installed
gitpython: Not Installed
ioflo: Not Installed
Jinja2: 2.10
libgit2: Not Installed
libnacl: 1.6.1
M2Crypto: 0.31.0
Mako: Not Installed
msgpack-pure: Not Installed
msgpack-python: 0.5.1
mysql-python: Not Installed
pycparser: 2.14
pycrypto: 3.6.6
pycryptodome: Not Installed
pygit2: Not Installed
Python: 2.7.16 (default, Apr 24 2019, 20:03:26)
python-gnupg: Not Installed
PyYAML: 3.13
PyZMQ: 16.0.2
RAET: Not Installed
smmap: Not Installed
timelib: Not Installed
Tornado: 4.5.3
ZMQ: 4.3.1

System Versions:
dist: gentoo 2.6
locale: UTF-8
machine: x86_64
release: 4.2.5-hardened-r1
system: Linux
version: Gentoo Base System 2.6

[waynew]

Is there an emerge app-admin/salt-minion?

Alternatively, you could try an install with either the bootstrap script or pip.

[luckylinux]

No there is not. I tried to create a custom app-admin/salt-minion where based on the USE flags I could turn on or off the different features. But I could only control the services to be installed (/etc/init.d/salt-minion, /etc/init.d/salt-master, ...). The salt-minion, salt-master, ... commands would be installed anyway.

The bootstrap script didn't work for me. app-admin/salt-9999 was retired because unmaintained/broken, see https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/app-admin/salt?showmsg=1). And that ebuild is requested by the bootstrap script.

I didn't try an installation with pip. That might be a possible solution although I'm not sure that is the reccomended way ...

[waynew]

@luckylinux It looks like this actually belongs on the Gentoo bug tracker - I just learned that they're the ones maintaining the salt package(s) on Gentoo.

[waynew]

Since Gentoo maintains that package, I'm going to go ahead and close this issue.